<p>I mean, I know it'll vary between schools. Is there really a huge difference between AB and BC? I know BC just covers material at a faster pace? I'm not sure I want to be in AB at my school, the teachers are notably inferior to the BC teacher at my school, who is very good. I got 100% on my precalc final junior year and a B+ overall (had 4 AP's, could've tried harder) but I was in non-honors. Is there going to be significant information that I'll be lacking going into Calc BC or will it not be a problem as long as I work hard?</p>
<p>A lot of this depends on your particular school.</p>
<p>For instance, at my school, students who are in the non-honors precalc almost never survive AP Calc AB even based on the lack of rigor in our non-honors precalc program.</p>
<p>BC is faster, and there’s a lot of additional memorization when it comes to working with series that AB students simply don’t have to do. There are also more decisions to make when it comes to integration, simply because there are more techniques that you learn on the BC exam compared to the AB exam.</p>
<p>60% of the BC test is on AB topics. That being said, I’d argue that 70-75% of the material in BC is probably AB topics. So it really depends on how well you’d be able to handle the additional topics, IMO, because they seem to be more highly weighted.</p>
<p>If the BC teacher at your school is as good as you say, I’d suggest taking it. BC covers a bit more but as TheMathProf said, most of the test is still AB topics. I hardly used any information from my pre-calc class in Calc so you won’t really be lacking much going into the course. With a good teacher, BC should be very manageable.</p>
<p>You are going to have to remember stuff from your precalculus class for BC, mainly polar/parametric, trig identities/substitutions, and the unit circle.</p>
<p>I’m in a bit of a debate between AB and BC myself… for the average teacher (not too hard, not too easy)… what would the nightly homework be in each, for those who have taken it?</p>
<p>Completely depends on the opinion of the teacher. There are two teachers that teach Cal AB at my school, one believes in repition and the other doesn’t. The one who does assigns a good 30 minutes plus a night while the teacher who doesn’t assigns 10-20 minutes a night.</p>
<p>I had the same situation at my school. I was a decent math student, but not the best. The better teacher was the BC teacher, so I chose that, and I’m glad I did. Everyone in Calc AB generally hated the class because of the teacher, and even though I hit a few bumps in BC, I enjoyed the class overall and that means more for me. </p>
<p>Oh and I was one of those weirdos who scored lower on the AB section than on the BC, so I think of that as proof that I was meant to be in BC lol</p>
<p>Me and my friend are almost identical math students. He took BC calc and struggled throughout the year and scraped by with a B while doing a lot of homework. I didnt do one homework assignment in AB calc and got a 4 on teh exame without studying for one second. I think AB is a lot easier and both count as AP credits… so my advice is take AB if your a slacker and just want to skate by. Take BC if you love math.</p>